Hey. So if only I had a cake for every customer that asked if we could delete all of their cloud files in a single container for them (i’d be really really really fat so maybe that is a bad idea). A dollar though, now there’s a thought.<\/p>\n
On that note, here is a dollar. Probably the best dollar you’ll see today. You could probably do this with php, bash or swiftly, but doing it *THIS* way is also awesome<\/strong>, and I learnt (although some might say learned) something<\/strong>. Here is how I did it. I should also importantly thank Matt Dorn for his contributions to this article. Without him this wouldn’t exist.<\/p>\n Step 1. Install Python, pip <\/p>\n Step 2. Install Pyrax (rackspace Python Openstack Library)<\/p>\n Step 3. Install Libevent <\/p>\n Step 4. Install Greenlet and Gevent<\/p>\n Step 5. Check gevent library loading in Python Shell <\/p>\n If nothing comes back, the gevent lib works OK.<\/p>\n Step 6. Create the code to delete all the files<\/p>\n It’s well worth noting that this can also be used to list all of the objects as well, but that is something for later…<\/p>\n Step 7. Execute (not me the script!)<\/p>\n The timeout can be adjusted. And the script can be run several times to ensure any missed files are retried to be deleted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hey. So if only I had a cake for every customer that asked if we could delete all of their cloud files in a single container for them (i’d be really really really fat so maybe that is a bad … Continue reading \r\nyum install python pip\r\napt-get install python pip\r\n<\/pre>\n
\r\npip install pyrax\r\n<\/pre>\n
\r\ncurl -L -O https:\/\/github.com\/downloads\/libevent\/libevent\/libevent-2.0.21-stable.tar.gz\r\ntar xzf libevent-2.0.21-stable.tar.gz\r\ncd libevent-2.0.21-stable\r\n.\/configure --prefix=\"$VIRTUAL_ENV\"\r\nmake && make install\r\ncd $VIRTUAL_ENV\/..\r\n<\/pre>\n
\r\n\r\npip install greenlet\r\npip install gevent\r\n<\/pre>\n
\r\npython\r\nimport gevent\r\n<\/pre>\n
\r\n#!\/usr\/bin\/python\r\n# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\r\nfrom gevent import monkey\r\nfrom gevent.pool import Pool\r\nfrom gevent import Timeout\r\nmonkey.patch_all()\r\nimport pyrax\r\n\r\nif __name__ == '__main__':\r\n pool = Pool(100)\r\npyrax.set_setting('identity_type', 'rackspace')\r\npyrax.set_setting('verify_ssl', False)\r\n# Rackspace Credentials Go here, Region LON, username: mycloudusername apikey: myrackspaceapikey. \r\npyrax.set_setting('region', 'LON')\r\npyrax.set_credentials('mycloudusername', 'myrackspaceapikey')\r\n\r\ncf = pyrax.cloudfiles\r\n# Remember to set the container correctly (which container to delete all files within?)\r\ncontainer = cf.get_container('testing')\r\nobjects = container.get_objects(full_listing=True)\r\n\r\n\r\ndef delete_object(obj):\r\n\r\n# added timeout of 5 seconds just in case\r\n\r\n with Timeout(5, False):\r\n try:\r\n obj.delete()\r\n except:\r\n pass\r\n\r\n\r\nfor obj in objects:\r\n pool.spawn(delete_object, obj)\r\npool.join()\r\n<\/pre>\n